I Hate Myself but I Love You

Chapter 50

Carmilla's POV

Oh, that can't be good. Laura, possibly sensing the tension in the room, is waking up pretty quickly.

I rush to the laptop, glad that Mattie didn't close the window. I open up the email and read aloud. "Hello and apologies for interrupting your day. Miss Perry has ordered a complete evacuation of the campus. However, she has requested that I stay behind with her and her followers. Please do not worry about me; I will be safe at Miss Perry's side for now. Continue with your preparations and come when you are ready."

"What else do we need to do?" LaFontaine sounds calm, but I can hear the panic in their voice. "I know we need to test my air cannon, but what else?"

"Air cannon?" Laura asks, rubbing sleep from her eyes.

"I made it so Carmilla won't breathe the sleeping powder in. If it works and doesn't blow up."

"Carm and I are done, I think. Right?" Laura looks at me for confirmation.

"Yeah, we are. What about you, Mattie?"

"The overgrown pup and I are done as well. We have everything ready to be moved."

LaF grabs their air cannon from beside their bed along with a mason jar of white powder. They gesture for us to follow them so we leave Papa Hollis to finish cooking (after he insisted that he's fine and practically shooed me out the door).

"I don't want to waste any or knock out every living thing within ten feet, so we're going to use dirt for the test runs." Ginger One says, getting into their mad scientist mode. "Luckily, the dirt around here has properties very similar to the sleeping powder."

They reach down and scoop up a handful of dirt; pouring it into a compartment in their air cannon (I'll never admit it aloud to anyone other than Laura, but their air cannon actually looks really cool). They close the compartment and aim it away from us. They pull the trigger and a cloud of dust shoots out, but doesn't go back to reach LaF.

They let out an excited hoot. "It didn't explode! Man, I'm awesome."

They test it twice more and I think even Mattie's impressed by the fact it hasn't turned into a giant fireball.

"Now all that's left is to find somewhere to do the spell." I comment.

"Breakfast first." Laura reminds me.

I reach out and take her hand, "Of course. Let's head back inside."

We all head back inside and I'm glad that LaF seems to be in a better mood.

"Breakfast is ready!" Papa Hollis says when we come in, putting eggs on plates.

I thank him and grab two, handing one to Laura. She sits on the ground and I set down my food next to her.

"I'll be right back." I press a kiss to her cheek.

I spend the next few minutes playing hostess and handing out blood to the vampires of our group. By the time I sit beside Laura, she's almost halfway done eating.

Between bites, LaFontaine, Laura and I joke with each other, trying to lighten the mood. Because after we finish eating, we'll have to grab what we need and save the world.